The reason that woke crusades matter isn’t because of the critical importance of the particular thing being canceled.
It’s because their continued success underscores deep, structural problems in our society around tolerating diverse points of view.
It’s because their continued success underscores deep, structural problems in our society around tolerating diverse points of view.
And the ease with which cultural, political, business, social and other forms of capital can be brought to bear to snuff out those ideas with serious consequences.
That’s what matters. The people whose response is always some variant of “who cares about Dr Seuss?!” ignore that.
That’s what matters. The people whose response is always some variant of “who cares about Dr Seuss?!” ignore that.
And their success breeds more power. The more scalps that cancel culture and other forces like it claim, the more it emboldens the mob to behave in a way that free people shouldn’t.
I think well-meaning people can disagree about whether conservatives are blowing the boogeyman out of proportion.
But the principle matters enormously, so I’m sympathetic to having the skirmishes out now rather than cave to the mob.
But the principle matters enormously, so I’m sympathetic to having the skirmishes out now rather than cave to the mob.
It isn’t about Dr. Seuss or Aunt Jemima or anything else.
It’s about whether you’re willing to tolerate a world where the things you enjoy can and will be destroyed by the advancing vanguard of progressive orthodoxy and entirely out of step with what most people think.
It’s about whether you’re willing to tolerate a world where the things you enjoy can and will be destroyed by the advancing vanguard of progressive orthodoxy and entirely out of step with what most people think.
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